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CVE-2026-44832: Snipe-IT: Privilege Escalation via API Permissions Assignment

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-05-26 · updated 2026-07-24
• Weakness: CWE-281

Description

Snipe-IT is an IT asset/license management system. Prior to 8.4.1, aAn authenticated user with only users.edit permission can escalate their own privileges to admin by sending a PATCH request to /api/v1/users/{id} with permissions[admin]=1. The API controller only strips the superuser key from the permissions array, allowing admin and all other permission keys to be set by any user who can update users. This vulnerability is fixed in 8.4.1.

Affected products

• grokability snipe-it: before 8.4.1 — fixed in 8.4.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: grokability snipe-it 8.4.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/grokability/snipe-it/commit/ce18ff669ceb0f0349749fd5d11c1d3d40b10569
• https://github.com/grokability/snipe-it/security/advisories/GHSA-hq28-crg7-95pr

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